Duke Increases Lead At ACC Women?s Golf Championship

Saturday, April 15

Pinehurst, N.C. (Pinehurst #8)

All Day

Duke University

Day Two

Duke Increases Lead At ACC Women?s Golf Championship

4/15/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf

By: Duke Sports Information

PINEHURST, N.C. ? Top-ranked Duke increased its first round lead of eight strokes to 17 on Saturday as the Blue Devils turned in a team-best round of 297 at the 2006 ACC Women's Golf Championship being played at the Par 72, 6,293-Yard Pinehurst #8 Golf Course in Pinehurst, N.C. Freshman Amanda Blumenherst continues to lead the individual action by five strokes as she is looking to become the 10th Blue Devil to in individual medalist honors at the ACC Championship.

Duke owns a two-day toal of 591 and leads by 17 strokes over Virginia (608) with Florida State (609), Maryland (612), N.C. State (614), Wake Forest (616), North Carolina (621), Miami (626) and Boston College (653) rounding out the field. The Blue Devils are looking to claim their 11th straight ACC title.

"I think we are doing fine," says Duke Head Coach Dan Brooks following the second round. "We are so thankful to be playing at (Pinehurst) No. 8 and to be training on a course of this magnitude, especially with the windy conditions that were on display today. But we do need to get tougher. We are playing okay, but I would like to see us play at the level at which I know we can play."

Blumenherst, a native of Scottsdale, Ariz., fired her second straight under-par round on Saturday as the freshman turned in a 71 and leads by eight strokes over Jaclyn Burch of Florida State and Leah Wigger of Virginia. She opened play in the second round with three consecutive pars before suffering bogies on No. 4 and No. 5. Blumenherst settled down to play her final 13 holes at three-under-par, including registering birdies on both par-fives on the back nine. Over the first two days, Blumenherst has played the back nine at five-under-par.

"Amanda hits it hard, straight and has a good ball flight," said Brooks. "When your ball flight is straight as well as being low and hard, it leads to the wind not effecting it as much as everyone else. She is also hitting a lot of greens and making her putts."

Sophomore Jennifer Pandolfi continued her excellent play as she collected a 74 on Saturday and is tied for fourth with a 149. A product of Navarre, Fla., Pandolfi played her first 11 holes at one-under-par as she notched a birdie on the par-four seventh hole, but closed out the day with bogies on No. 12, No. 14 and No. 16.

Duke's lone senior, Liz Janangelo, continued to struggle to make birdies on day two finishing with a 77 and is tied for 13th with a 153. Janangelo, who is from West Hartford, Conn., opened play with a birdie on the par-five second hole and was one-under-par through three holes before finishing off the day with six bogies and no more birdies. Over 36 holes the 2004 National Player of the Year, Janangelo has mananged only two birdies.

After totaling an 80 in the opening round on Friday, junior Anna Grzebien rebounded with a 75 on Saturday and is tied for 17th along with freshman Jennie Lee at 155. Grzebien, the 2005 NCAA Individual Champion and product of Narragansett, R.I., birdied three of four par-fives but also had six bogies on the day. Lee, who kicked off her first ACC Championship with a 74 on day one, struggled on Saturday finishing with an 81. She started off on the wrong foot as she triple-bogied the first hole before playing her final 17 holes at six-over-par.

"We are getting exactly what we wanted from this tournament in preparation for the NCAA Regionals and National Championship," said Brooks. "The course is not playing particulary long and if it were a little longer we might be closer to par. This is not a course that I would expect us to shoot under par on."

Duke will begin teeing off on Sunday morning at 9:40 a.m. along with Virginia and Florida State for the final round.

"They know what to do [going into the final round]," said Brooks. "They have learned a lot over the first two rounds and good golfers are going to get better on good golf courses."- d - u - k - e -

rank team scores
1 Duke 294 297 591 +15
2 Virginia 308 300 608 +32
3 Florida State Univ. 302 307 609 +33
4 Maryland, U. of 308 304 612 +36
5 North Carolina State 302 312 614 +38
6 Wake Forest 314 302 616 +40
7 North Carolina, U of 315 306 621 +45
8 Miami, U. of 316 310 626 +50
9 Boston College 330 323 653 +77

start finish player school scores
1 1 Amanda Blumenherst Duke 69 71 140 −4
T7 T2 Jaclyn Burch Florida State Univ. 75 73 148 +4
T13 T2 Leah Wigger Virginia 76 72 148 +4
T4 T4 Nancy Mountcastle North Carolina State 74 75 149 +5
T7 T4 Jennifer Pandolfi Duke 75 74 149 +5
T7 T4 Katie Stepanek Maryland, U. of 75 74 149 +5
T2 T4 Katie Trotter Maryland, U. of 72 77 149 +5
T2 8 Caroline Westrup Florida State Univ. 72 79 151 +7
T7 T9 Stephanie Derrey North Carolina State 75 77 152 +8
T7 T9 Rachel Smith Virginia 75 77 152 +8
T4 T9 Jessica Steward Miami, U. of 74 78 152 +8
T19 T9 Carly Truitt Virginia 78 74 152 +8
T7 T13 Jean Chua Wake Forest 75 78 153 +9
T22 T13 Mandy Goins Wake Forest 79 74 153 +9
T13 T13 Elizabeth Janangelo Duke 76 77 153 +9
T19 T13 Katie Miller North Carolina, U of 78 75 153 +9
T13 T17 Whitney Brummett Florida State Univ. 76 79 155 +11
− T17 Anna Grzebien Duke 80 75 155 +11
T4 T17 Jennie Lee Duke 74 81 155 +11
T28 T17 Josie Shinn Miami, U. of 80 75 155 +11
T19 T17 Lara Smilnak Boston College 78 77 155 +11
T22 T22 Jennie Arseneault Virginia 79 77 156 +12
T13 T22 Molly Birmingham North Carolina State 76 80 156 +12
T17 T22 Lauren Hunt North Carolina, U of 77 79 156 +12
T38 T22 Maggie Simons Wake Forest 84 72 156 +12
T17 T26 Lorraine Ballerano North Carolina State 77 80 157 +13
T35 T26 Laura Caniff North Carolina, U of 82 75 157 +13
T22 T26 Caroline Larsson Florida State Univ. 79 78 157 +13
T28 T26 Lauren Mielbrecht Virginia 80 77 157 +13
T22 T30 Kelly Calkin Maryland, U. of 79 79 158 +14
T28 T30 Nannette Hill Wake Forest 80 78 158 +14
34 T30 Ann Laney North Carolina, U of 81 77 158 +14
T22 T33 Sydney Crane North Carolina, U of 79 80 159 +15
T35 T33 Kelly MacWhinnie Maryland, U. of 82 77 159 +15
T28 T33 Hagen Weintraub Miami, U. of 80 79 159 +15
T35 36 Tiffany Prats Miami, U. of 82 78 160 +16
T22 37 Emily Cannon Boston College 79 82 161 +17
T28 T38 Laura Crawford Wake Forest 80 85 165 +21
41 T38 Whitney Wright Florida State Univ. 88 77 165 +21
T28 40 Jessica Vincent North Carolina State 80 87 167 +23